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Overview of installing Trac on Windows

There are several ways to get Trac up and running on Windows. This page will give you an overview.

Step-by-step installation guides can be found in the CookBook/Installation#OnWindows. They are easy to follow and use the typical Windows point-and-click style.

All-in-one installer is provided through the BitNami Trac stack. It provides a Windows installer (as well as Linux and Mac OSX ones) that will install in a self-contained environment Python, Apache and Subversion, along with Trac and Genshi. It will let you create a new repository and a new Trac environment. Alternatively, you can also get the same software as a VMWare image or even an Amazon Machine Image. (However since version 1.0.10.4 Bitnami removed integration support for Subversion under Microsoft Windows.)

Whichever method you pick, please familiarize yourself with some key concepts like the TracEnvironment, and also the TracStandalone web front-end, useful for testing or for setting up directly as a service.

The TracOnWindows/Advanced instructions cover in detail alternative ways to install Trac on Windows, on different database backends or on different web server front-ends.